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Lead book review

Romance and rejection

28 October 2017

9:00 AM

28 October 2017

9:00 AM

‘Outsider’ ought to be an important word. To attach it to someone, particularly a writer, is to suggest that their helpless circumstances have condemned them to struggle and neglect. It is up to us — posterity — to look beyond the writers who had social advantages in the year 1880, say, and find those who wrote best.

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